ˈcoat-money Hist.
Money to provide a coat for each man furnished for military service; esp. that exacted as a tax by Charles I. when governing without a Parliament. Usually in the phrase coat and conduct money. Cf. coat n. 12.
See Forster Gr. Remonstr. (1860) 225; Bruce Verney Papers Camd. Soc. (1853) 127, 289–293.
| 1557 Act 4 & 5 Philip & Mary c. 3 §4 If any Captain..shall not pay unto his Soldiers..their full and whole Wages, Conduct and Coat Money. 1640 Schedule Grievances in Forster Gr. Remonstr. (1860) 225 The new taxe of Coate and Conduct Mony, with undue meanes used to inforce the payment of it. 1640 Pym Sp. Grievances in Forster Life (1837) 109 The seventh great civil grievance hath been, the militarie charges laid upon the several counties of the kingdome..It began first to be practised as a loane for supply of coat and conduct money. 1647 Clarendon Hist. Reb. I. v. 427 The continued Oppressions by Ship-money, Coat and Conduct-money. a 1662 Heylin Laud iv. (1668) 382 To raise and maintain an Army with no charge to the Common Subject: but only a little Coat and Conduct money at their first setting out. 1761 Hume Hist. Eng. III. liii. 148. 1827 Hallam Const. Hist. (1876) II. viii. 92. |